A guide to the contemporary Jewish authors featured on MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book Council's blog series.

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Jewish literature is deep into a renaissance. Jewish books and Jewish authors are no longer ethnic tokens on a larger bookshelf, but are establishing themselves in their own right, from the critical success of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union to the already-canonical Everything Is Illuminated. Contemporary Jewish authors are telling new and mindblowing stories, earning praise from critics and readers–both among Jewish and general audiences–and breaking down the walls of what constitutes a “Jewish book.”

MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book Council would like to introduce you to some of these authors.

Every other week, we bring you voices from the new Jewish literary scene. They are as diverse as the term itself: fiction and nonfiction, deathly funny and deathly serious, politics and music, poetry and pirates. Some writers share personal stories about writing their books. Others share B-sides and DVD-style extras. Still others blog about their lives, or current events. The only things that our bloggers have in common are that they all take Judaism in their own direction…and they all spark the dynamite of our imaginations.

Jewish literature is deep into a renaissance. Jewish books and Jewish authors are no longer ethnic tokens on a larger bookshelf, but are establishing themselves in their own right, from the critical success of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union to the already-canonical Everything Is Illuminated. Contemporary Jewish authors are telling new and mindblowing stories, earning praise from critics and readers–both among Jewish and general audiences–and breaking down the walls of what constitutes a “Jewish book.”

MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book Council would like to introduce you to some of these authors.

Every other week, we bring you voices from the new Jewish literary scene. They are as diverse as the term itself: fiction and nonfiction, deathly funny and deathly serious, politics and music, poetry and pirates. Some writers share personal stories about writing their books. Others share B-sides and DVD-style extras. Still others blog about their lives, or current events. The only things that our bloggers have in common are that they all take Judaism in their own direction…and they all spark the dynamite of our imaginations.

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